Yeah, the topic has a lot of confusion seemingly coming from people who do not understand that preservation =/= accessibility.
Fact is Nintendo preserved practically anything they worked on at some point, even when it comes to stuff that solely used for promotional use or unique occasions. That's why when you get leaks like the Giga Nintendo leaks from years back, people had the opportunity to info early Space World demos and the original source code for games.
Even better, they also preserve 3rd party roms for other game companies lol. Square Enix had to ask them for the source code of Seiken Dentetsu 3 (Trials of Mana) because they purged their own archives.
The problem here, is they keep that preservation close to their chest and trickling most of it's accessibility for the players.
But hey, I do think it's both a problem of entitlement from gamers and the publishers to think nothing can lose itself to history at some point and that nothing is eternal.
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